· Private foundation
The B & B Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k51 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FDN COTTAGE REHAB & GV COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $13,500 |
| SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| SB NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICSADMIN OFFICE | $10,000 |
| CARES 4PAWS | $10,000 |
| HEROES AND HORSES | $7,500 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $6,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE | $5,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE | $5,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FDN | $5,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $5,000 |
| WORLD DANCE FOR HUMANITY | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +75%
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA6× · 2021–2026 · $35k · revenue +198%
- EMEagle Mount6× · 2021–2026 · $30k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- GEGOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -24%
- WCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHENATTN DONOR SERV TEAMone grant, 2025 · $6k
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +43%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
How this is measured
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds World Dance for Humanity ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Standing Together to End Sexual Assault ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The B & B Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The B & B Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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